Apparatus for attaching or detaching handles of brushes, brooms, or the like.



Y Patented lune l7, I902. 'J. ELSTDNE. v APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING 0B DETACHING HANDLE'S'OF BRUSHES,

BROOMS, ORTHE LIKE.

. (Application filed Apr. 1, 1902.)

("0 Model.)

cums PUERM'I'PHQYQLIIMO, WASHINGTON a c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH ELSTONE, OF HEMSWORTH, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING OR DETACHlNG HANDLES OF BRUSHES, BROOMS, OR THE, LlKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 702,712, dated June 17, 1902.

Application filed April 1, 1902. Serial No. 100,960. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH ELSTONE, a subj ect of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Hemsworth, near Wakefield, in the county of York, England, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Attaching or Detaching the Handles of Brushes, Brooms, or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus or appliance for attaching and detachingthe handles of brushes and brooms, butapplicable also to other similar articles in The cylinder or socket d has a spindlefiwhich said washer g from turning or rotating with the handle a. The handle a is then turned or rotated and the spindle f screws into the nut t and raises it, the said nut '13 being prevented from turning or rotating with the spindle by the friction or grip of the rubber washer h,'which' binds it to the fixed capwasher g. The nut 41 therefore compresses 4 the rubber washer h and causes it to expand outward, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to press tightly against the sides of the socket c in the brush-head. The handle a is thus firmly attached to the head I) of the brush or broom.

To detach the handle or shaft a from the head 5, the handle is turned or rotated in the opposite direction. This action relaxes thecompression of the rubber washer h by the nut iand enables the appliance to be readily withdrawn from the'socket c of the brushhead.-

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the handle or shaft a and the head I) having socket c, of the metal 

